Information on the Trelfa surname

[History Lives]

I'm looking for information on the surname Trelfa, which seems to be fairly indigenous to Cheshire. Mary Trelfa, an ancestor of mine, was born in Church Minshull in 1740 to William Trelfa, but I can't seem to trace the line further back.

Is this surname perhaps a spelling variation of a more common surname? I can't find any information on its origins or etymology.

Thanks in advance.

[goldie61]

From The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland (on a Google search).

[Jo Harding]

Find my Past has a burial for John Trelfa in Church Minshull in 21 June 1816, he was aged 81. That puts his year of birth as 1735.

His Will is online and it shows he lived in Minshull Vernon and he was a Farmer. It names his children as John Trelfa, Samuel Trelfa, Richard Trelfa, Elizabeth Johnson and Jane Hulse.

There are masses of entries for people by the name of Trelfa in Church Minshulland Middlewich, plus a number of places in that area. Like you have found, the entries seem to begin about 1730.

One of the local authors, Frank Latham, did a series of books on the villages in Cheshire and he has done on The History of Church Minshull and Wettenhall. These tend to be out of print now but most of the libraries in Cheshire keep them. The Cheshire archives would hold a copy as well. I am sure there would be something on the Trelfa family in this book.

By the look of information on Genuki, there are parish registers available for years prior to the 1700s.

https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CHS/churchminshull/churchminshull_church

https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CHS/ChurchMinshull

Jo

[garstonite]

Mary Trelfa married Ralph Oakes on 2nd January 1758 at St Chads ,Over ,Cheshire in my tree - would there be a record at St Chads where you can look up to see who her father was ? - if so I will go to St Chads - is St Chads still there

[BumbleB]

Image for the 1758 marriage is available on FindMyPast.  Ralph was a Husbandsman, and both were of the parish of Over.

Father's names are not shown at this time.

[BumbleB]

There is a baptism at Church Minshull - 7 January 1740

Mary daughter of John Trelfa of Minshull

Again, image available on FindMyPast

[garstonite]

There is a baptism at Church Minshull - 7 January 1740

Mary daughter of John Trelfa of Minshull

Again, image available on FindMyPast

History Lives says father was William - but I have never found Marys father - but

I would think that has to be her with father as John ??   not a common name - so I wonder if I can find a marriage of John Trelfa on Cheshire Parish Records Database - this should be fun ...lol  ...by the way - History Lives and I have the same 5 x G Grandparents on the Oakes family -Ralph Oakes and Mary Trelfa ... I am an Oakes 

[BumbleB]

There is a marriage entry - Bunbury - 14 February 1734

John Trelfa and Elizabeth Arrowsmith - by Licence (can't see a copy of the Bond/Allegation)

[garstonite]

There is a marriage entry - Bunbury - 14 February 1734

John Trelfa and Elizabeth Arrowsmith - by Licence (can't see a copy of the Bond/Allegation)

John Threlfa ( with an H ) christened March 9th 1735 Bunbury father John - probably their firstborn ??  what do you think ?